No, it would be the 'title' attribute - 'alt' applies to images, forms or applets. 'title' applies to things like links, which are what we were talking about.
Only users with a Javascript enabled graphical browser will be able to email you.
If this is the case, you may put a notification and workaround instructions in the title attribute for the link, which most text browsers should pick up.
I've played around with the one handed typing modes executed in software (holding down the spacebar to mirrror the right half of the keyboard while the left hand keeps typing). Takes some getting used to, but it looks like there are keyboards made for this.
FWIW, Matias corporation own the patents to that technique, so any software you're using may get taken down. I once wrote some software to do it, but was asked to take it down within 12 hours of releasing the first alpha (which was fair enough in a way, since I did knowingly base my work on their idea).
Their average would be across ALL Americans (hence the 'On average an American...'), which includes your ma, da and all sorts of other people who never actually play games.
I think you're onto something - I've not been training my Bayesian filter (spambayes) on any of the SoBig emails, because I do get a LOT of legitimate mail with 'See attached file for details' as the main message body, and I don't want those filtered in future. I'm quite glad that they didn't use body-text from other emails on the infected machines for this reason.
I've been noticing that more spam these days either has no words (just an image) or is worded extremely carefully; they are grammatically correct and very colloquial or very formal - it's starting to increase the number of false positives to an unacceptable level.
Really I was under the impression that nobody used MSN/Yahoo/Jabber/whatever.
But I suppose this might vary regionally.
This is just a personal observation, but I would tend to agree with this - I've not seen AIM used by anyone in Australia save for those who need to talk to Americans. Looking at my Miranda contact list, there is one AIM user, 37 ICQ users and 9 MSN users. The ICQ users are all my techie friends, the MSN users are people who don't use computers that often; they all use it because it's tied in to their hotmail accounts. All the ICQ users use ICQ because no-one here had heard of AIM until last year, presumably due to AOL's lack of local marketing.
The strange thing is that I've been an ICQ user since 1996 or so, and despite conversing with a large number of American users, I hadn't really heard of AIM until a few years ago, and had not met anyone who used it until earlier this year.
While I'm sure many others are typing the same thing as I use this, why not set up bittorrent; it's nearly perfect for your application - if there are peers who already have the data, then it'll grab it off them, otherwise it'll grab it from the server.
As opposed to, oh, checking the Tomatometer at or before the day of release? Or reading reviews you trust? Or just making a _phone call_ to your friends instead of texting them?
Maybe SMS culture is different where you are, but SMS is often better at spreading such information; you can walk out of a movie and within 60 seconds everyone in your phonebook receives a 'Gigli Sux' message - it's much less hassle than a phone call, and it PUSHES the information to people, so they don't have to seek it out, or use the internet.
Granted, I think the MPAA is mistaken when they blame it purely on SMS, and it has more to do with factors you've mentioned, but to many people, SMS is EVERYTHING (kind of like when everyone started to use ICQ).
Is it just me, or is that not a flamewar at all? Flamewars are all-out textual brawls; this appears to be some mild discussion with the most offensive line of text referring to being born in the US as 'unfortunate'. And after that outbreak, the situation mostly resolved itself.
OH NO! HNNGG! BURRRN! TAKE THAT! These guys are obviously flame-war masters, with the powers to bring forth Derek Smart levels of binary cacophony.
A few other things I've found (I'm in the same situation) that the ZenNX has over the iPod:
Removable/replaceable battery (although whether Creative will actually sell them further down the line is another issue).
Low signal/noise ratio - Apple don't have (in my limited searching) specs for SNR for the iPod listed anywhere, so I can't compare, but from what I hear, the ZenNX has it there.
4-band equaliser - the iPod just has presets.
On-the-fly cross-song volume normalisation - probably be handy for when your entire collection was been ripped before you knew anything about volume control. *ahem*
Err, that's it. I would recommend that you check the accuracy of my statements; some of my comparisons may be to the older iPod.
Seeing this guy wearing his clunky "Video I-glasses" made me wonder why these never caught on.*
I own a pair of the newer i-glasses, and it's easy to tell why no-one uses them - as the focal distance is set quite far away, unless you wear glasses underneath, it's a blurry mess. Even if you do, the optics feel cheap, there's still some blurring, and you can never see all of the screen at once (maybe my eyes are more inset from my forehead than others).
They also only go up to 800x600, with a view area equivalent to a 19" monitor from 3' away. It's much smaller than it sounds, and so is really only useful for watching videos in private.
They're not much cop for gaming, either - the display is so manky that any benefit gained by the stereo 3d (which is quite excellent) is lost by the fact that you can't really see what you're looking at.
Sure, these problems can be overcome with more research, but with headsets like this, no-one's getting interested enough to create a decent market for them. Let's hope those motorola/frogdesign glasses turn out ok.
After reading the/. summary, and the first few pages of the article, I still don't know WHY they're doing this. More information in the summaries, pleaaase!
(Please forgive me if I've missed something obvious, it's early Saturday morning, and I'm stuck at work).
One of the many reasons is that it would cut into their overseas offices' profits.
Example: The Creative Nomad Zen costs US$299, and even after shipping, customs handling and local tax, I could ship it here for around AU$500. Yet locally, the RRP is ~AU$850 - if I was Creative Australia, I'd be asking head office to stop letting such things get shipped to my 'zone'.
Palm had an arrangement like this for a while, but weren't too strict on enforcing it, and I know Garmin had big restrictions on the sale of their GPS units, which people very vocally complained about.
As I said, this is just one reason of many, but it's the one I've heard most often.
I had written a small program that would let you use a regular QWERTY keyboard efficiently (it uses your existing QWERTY skills) with one hand, but as it was based entirely on someone else's work, when they asked me to, I took it down.
So instead, try the HalfKeyboard on which my work was based. Failing that, I hear good things about the one-handed DVORAK layouts.
Meanwhile, if you want to do the whole Vietnam war thing with the BF1942 engine, be sure to check out the excellent Eve of Destruction mod, which seems to have almost as many servers as vanilla BF. It's going to be hard for EA/Dice to compete with this.
I love my trackpoint (nipple) pointer that juts up in the middle of my keyboards - while it's not as accurate as a mouse or even trackpad, it's good enough to click on links or select the words/fields I need, with an absolute minimum of movement - I hate having to move my thumb down to a trackpad on a laptop, and then having to move it ALL the way across its surface a few times to get what I want.
I lament how trackpoints are disappearing off laptop keyboards these days.
Personally, I'm using a combination of SpamBayes and the aforementioned cloudmark, although once my 30 free days runs out, I'll just be using spambayes, which seems much more accurate.
How come your PhD, embedded multitasking OS writing mom can't figure it out?
Because by default, Windows hides file extensions (and so does her email client). Sure, she could dig through to find the option to turn them back on, but why should she have to?
Don't get me wrong, each time I see how mashed up her machines are, I crack the craps and rant about daft people are to open any old email attachment without checking what they are first. But my point is that smart people usually have better things to do with their brains than learning the constantly changing intricacies of their system.
As you can see from my previous paragraph, I am a deeply conflicted individual.
While my experience is similar to yours, I don't think it's a matter of the user being an idiot. Take my mum for example - she wrote an embedded multitasking OS for her masters (and built the computer to run it), and for her PhD she built and programmed one of Britain's first colour ECGs. She's what I call 'freaky smart'.
Then she stopped doing the hardcore geek thing for a few years, and just settled into using windows for basic word processing. Now every time I check her machine, it's RIDDLED with viruses - so many, in fact, that even the latest virus scanners choke and die before completing their scans. Even after a reinstall/reformat, it's the same thing six months later.
From her perspective, if a co-worker or client sends her an attachment, why shouldn't she open it? She's not going to spend the time to memorise the file extensions that are good or bad.
This is my point - most users don't have the time nor desire to educate themselves about basic computer security; as far as they're concerned, the 'whizz-bang' computer should be trusted to do what it does.. if it's so smart, why can't it protect itself? And as I mentioned in another message somewhere, this is going to be one of the selling points of trusted-computing style environments such as Palladium.
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In a flash of brilliance, I left out the mailto: .. but you get the idea.
Alternatively, to keep it transparently usable by end-users, you can just do like this:
<a href="false@false.com" onmouseover="var a = 'in.com'; this.href = 'real@doma'+a;">email me</a>.
Nuts, I thought the title was Home Computers for Microbrew Projects. So I am understandably disappointed with the non-beer focus of these comments.
I think you're onto something - I've not been training my Bayesian filter (spambayes) on any of the SoBig emails, because I do get a LOT of legitimate mail with 'See attached file for details' as the main message body, and I don't want those filtered in future. I'm quite glad that they didn't use body-text from other emails on the infected machines for this reason.
I've been noticing that more spam these days either has no words (just an image) or is worded extremely carefully; they are grammatically correct and very colloquial or very formal - it's starting to increase the number of false positives to an unacceptable level.
The strange thing is that I've been an ICQ user since 1996 or so, and despite conversing with a large number of American users, I hadn't really heard of AIM until a few years ago, and had not met anyone who used it until earlier this year.
While I'm sure many others are typing the same thing as I use this, why not set up bittorrent; it's nearly perfect for your application - if there are peers who already have the data, then it'll grab it off them, otherwise it'll grab it from the server.
The source is available, too.
Granted, I think the MPAA is mistaken when they blame it purely on SMS, and it has more to do with factors you've mentioned, but to many people, SMS is EVERYTHING (kind of like when everyone started to use ICQ).
Is it just me, or is that not a flamewar at all? Flamewars are all-out textual brawls; this appears to be some mild discussion with the most offensive line of text referring to being born in the US as 'unfortunate'. And after that outbreak, the situation mostly resolved itself.
OH NO! HNNGG! BURRRN! TAKE THAT! These guys are obviously flame-war masters, with the powers to bring forth Derek Smart levels of binary cacophony.
- Removable/replaceable battery (although whether Creative will actually sell them further down the line is another issue).
- Low signal/noise ratio - Apple don't have (in my limited searching) specs for SNR for the iPod listed anywhere, so I can't compare, but from what I hear, the ZenNX has it there.
- 4-band equaliser - the iPod just has presets.
- On-the-fly cross-song volume normalisation - probably be handy for when your entire collection was been ripped before you knew anything about volume control. *ahem*
Err, that's it. I would recommend that you check the accuracy of my statements; some of my comparisons may be to the older iPod.They also only go up to 800x600, with a view area equivalent to a 19" monitor from 3' away. It's much smaller than it sounds, and so is really only useful for watching videos in private.
They're not much cop for gaming, either - the display is so manky that any benefit gained by the stereo 3d (which is quite excellent) is lost by the fact that you can't really see what you're looking at.
Sure, these problems can be overcome with more research, but with headsets like this, no-one's getting interested enough to create a decent market for them. Let's hope those motorola/frogdesign glasses turn out ok.
After reading the /. summary, and the first few pages of the article, I still don't know WHY they're doing this. More information in the summaries, pleaaase!
(Please forgive me if I've missed something obvious, it's early Saturday morning, and I'm stuck at work).
One of the many reasons is that it would cut into their overseas offices' profits.
Example: The Creative Nomad Zen costs US$299, and even after shipping, customs handling and local tax, I could ship it here for around AU$500. Yet locally, the RRP is ~AU$850 - if I was Creative Australia, I'd be asking head office to stop letting such things get shipped to my 'zone'.
Palm had an arrangement like this for a while, but weren't too strict on enforcing it, and I know Garmin had big restrictions on the sale of their GPS units, which people very vocally complained about.
As I said, this is just one reason of many, but it's the one I've heard most often.
I had written a small program that would let you use a regular QWERTY keyboard efficiently (it uses your existing QWERTY skills) with one hand, but as it was based entirely on someone else's work, when they asked me to, I took it down.
So instead, try the HalfKeyboard on which my work was based. Failing that, I hear good things about the one-handed DVORAK layouts.
Meanwhile, if you want to do the whole Vietnam war thing with the BF1942 engine, be sure to check out the excellent Eve of Destruction mod, which seems to have almost as many servers as vanilla BF. It's going to be hard for EA/Dice to compete with this.
I love my trackpoint (nipple) pointer that juts up in the middle of my keyboards - while it's not as accurate as a mouse or even trackpad, it's good enough to click on links or select the words/fields I need, with an absolute minimum of movement - I hate having to move my thumb down to a trackpad on a laptop, and then having to move it ALL the way across its surface a few times to get what I want.
I lament how trackpoints are disappearing off laptop keyboards these days.
There is spamassassin for outlook, available here
Personally, I'm using a combination of SpamBayes and the aforementioned cloudmark, although once my 30 free days runs out, I'll just be using spambayes, which seems much more accurate.
Don't get me wrong, each time I see how mashed up her machines are, I crack the craps and rant about daft people are to open any old email attachment without checking what they are first. But my point is that smart people usually have better things to do with their brains than learning the constantly changing intricacies of their system.
As you can see from my previous paragraph, I am a deeply conflicted individual.
While my experience is similar to yours, I don't think it's a matter of the user being an idiot. Take my mum for example - she wrote an embedded multitasking OS for her masters (and built the computer to run it), and for her PhD she built and programmed one of Britain's first colour ECGs. She's what I call 'freaky smart'.
.. if it's so smart, why can't it protect itself? And as I mentioned in another message somewhere, this is going to be one of the selling points of trusted-computing style environments such as Palladium.
Then she stopped doing the hardcore geek thing for a few years, and just settled into using windows for basic word processing. Now every time I check her machine, it's RIDDLED with viruses - so many, in fact, that even the latest virus scanners choke and die before completing their scans. Even after a reinstall/reformat, it's the same thing six months later.
From her perspective, if a co-worker or client sends her an attachment, why shouldn't she open it? She's not going to spend the time to memorise the file extensions that are good or bad.
This is my point - most users don't have the time nor desire to educate themselves about basic computer security; as far as they're concerned, the 'whizz-bang' computer should be trusted to do what it does
Scary.